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Opinion Type
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Docket Number
2024-113
Parties Involved
Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.
Tommy Durrett
Agency at Issue
Union Parish Police Jury
Decision Date
3/6/2026
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1117
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Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. violated La. R.S. 42:1117 by giving Tommy Durrett, the Public Works Director for the Union Parish Police Jury, complimentary hotel accomodations for three nights in Nashville, Tennessee, when he was prohibited by La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) from receiving such a gift because Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. had or was seeking to obtain a contractual or other business or financial relationship with Tommy Durrett's agency, the Union Parish Police Jury.
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Ethics Board Docket No. 2024-113 <br /> Page 6 of 12 <br /> transfer, or deliver or offer to give, pay, loan, transfer, ar deliver, directly or indirectly, to any <br /> public servant or other person any thing of economic value which such public servant or other <br /> person would be prohibited from receiving by any provision of this Part. <br /> 2. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1115(A) provides that no public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or <br /> indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from any officer, <br /> director, agent, ar employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should <br /> know that such person: <br /> (1) Has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with <br /> the public servant's agency. <br /> 3. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102 provides the following relevant definitions when analyzing the above <br /> provisions: <br /> (2)(a) "Agency" means a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, <br /> committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity.... (vi) For public <br /> servants of political subdivisions, it shall mean the agency in which the public <br /> servant serves, except that for members of any governing autharity and for the <br /> elected or appointed chief executive of a governmental entity, it shall mean the <br /> governmental entity. <br /> (12) "Governmental entity" means the state or any political subdivision which <br /> employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to which <br /> the elected official is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (16) "Person"means an individual or legal entity other than a governmental entity, <br /> or an agency thereof. <br /> (17) "Political subdivision"means any unit of local government,including a special <br /> district, authorized by law to perform governmental functions. <br /> (18)"Public employee"means anyone, whether compensated or not,who is: <br />
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